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Saturday, 14 September 2019

England will probably win the Oval test thanks to the incompetence of the Oz captain.I wrote this in my blog of 25th August. He is their worst captain since Ian Johnson in 1956. Johnson had Miller and Lindwall two of the best fast bowlers that ever played and contrived to lose. England doctored the wickets to suit Laker but Johnson was a liability. that was too much for the rest of the team to overcome.

Johnson was seen as a safe pair of hands as was Paine.Just count how many catches he has dropped. He even did his best to put Steve Smith off as difficult catch by diving in front of him.

The other claimed safe pair of hands was Mrs May who has done her best to screw up Brexit and made things ten times more difficult for BoJo. She was chosen like Paine and Johnson as someone who would not upset the opposition. That hands victory to the other side. What you need is a PM/Captain who does upset the opposition and not give out knighthoods to convicted woman beaters and mediocre civil servants.

Saturday, 31 August 2019

In that decade UK politicians with the exception of Churchill and a few like minded rebels kowtowed to Hitler and led by Lord Halifax would have made us a colony of the Third Reich.

I quote from Vernon Bogdanor,

Looking at the sorry performance of the House of Commons elected in 2017, it is difficult to avoid remembering Winston Churchill’s condemnation of the parliaments of the 1930s as being “decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent”. Parliament has shown itself not to be the solution to Brexit but the problem.BoJo is quite right to have clipped these useless MPs wings. Corbyn is not an atypical MP he epitomises omost of our useless MPs who have nothing to offer but their own self interest.When I campaigned in 2016 I used the slogan,Vote for freedom or you and yours will die German slaves. I have not changed my mind. Indeed our choice is even starker with an EU fascist set to run the EU commission and rule over us .

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

I loved it today. Soubry was apoplectic with rage, great! Ditto Bercow, Heseltine etc all parroting the same phrase Constitutional outrage is all they can endlessly say. Little goody two shoes aka Mrs Balls has been hoist ith her own petard

I wrote there that I thought the Oz captain Paine was a duff captain.who made poor review decisions which today cost the Aussies the match. His poor batting also handicaps his side. He should be dropped. Wade is a competent keeper and better batter than Paine. Time for the Oz management to act but will they?.

Sun Tzu wrote over 2000 years ago that battles are won and lost before the first blows are exchanged. Its the same with Ashes cricket. The Aussies lost when they dropped Smith as captain and picked Paine like they chose Johnston instead of Miller in 1956.Nice guys come last as the Donald will tell you.

Thank God we ditched May and switched to BoJo. He picks good competent assistants who at least give us a chance against Barnier

Sunday, 18 August 2019

The first Ashes series I remember watching on our old 12 ins black and white TV was in 1956 when England won the series but lost at Lords.The Oz captain Johnson was not worth his place in the side.Keith Miller should have been captain but he was a bit too much for the Oz selectors who wanted a yes man and no trouble on tour.

Roll on 65 years and the Aussies off the of the sandpaper incident have again picked a duff captain who consistently gets the reviews wrong, scores few runs and drops many catches. I have never seen an Oz side drop as many catches as this current side.

It all reminds me of Mrs May advertised as a safe pair of hands by the sycophant Hancock.

BoJo so far has picked a good team. Let us hope they hold their catches.